How deeply, in the Trump era, I have come to feel a sense of resignation as I approach the cold open of a new episode of Saturday Night Live. As the hour nears, I am pre-exhausted. It is almost always political, in the sense that it features comic actors made
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Last night’s SNL premiere finally answered the burning question: What if a character like Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood was alive today, with a son in school, and they had a career day? Would he scream at the children? Teach them the ruthless was of oil baronry? Smash
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The color slowly drains out of the new King Lear as it goes along, as if to formalize its depiction of a nation bled dry by its own awfulness. Adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, this BBC Two and Amazon coproduction is a modernized version of William Shakespeare’s epic about
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The 44th season of Saturday Night Live premiered last night and wasted no time addressing the big, famous, headline-grabbing elephant in the room. No, not musical guest Kanye West (that came later) but cast member Pete Davidson’s whirlwind romance and engagement to Ariana Grande. The show kicked things off during
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Ah, the new season of Saturday Night Live: new writers, new featured players, new opportunities for Leslie Jones to give the camera her death stare! And nowhere in the betting pool for the first host: Adam Driver, who kicks off SNL’s 44th season with his second hosting gig. His first
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SNL’s 44th season premiered last night, and in addition to the writing staff’s new additions of Alan Linc, Alison Gates, Eli Coyote Mande, and Bowen Yang, there was another notable change: Fran Gillespe and Sudi Green were bumped up to writing supervisors.Take a look at the full writing staff below:Head
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You know how at the end of every SNL episode, the cast and host all get together and hug as slow piano music plays and people wave and it’s all nice? In SNL’s season 44 premiere, that warm and fuzzy stuff was replaced with Kanye West performing “Ghost Town” with
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The “being formally known as Kanye West” who earlier today announced “I am YE” was introduced by host Adam Driver as Kanye West for his first performance on SNL’s season 44 premiere, so, crisis averted. But who needs a name change when you’re a giant bottle of fancy sparkling water?
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